Team

Management Team

Thierry Weber, MD – CEO, Member of Board, Medical Director

Thierry holds a degree and a doctorate in medicine. For several years, he worked as a physician in various hospitals (Switzerland and South Africa) and a private practice. He then had the opportunity to join the pharmaceutical industry (marketing and clinical studies), before moving on to the medtech sector. With the main intention to build bridges between physicians and the industry, while always keeping the interest of the patient in mind, Thierry co-founded Vivactis Switzerland with Vivactis Group. He presently lives in Switzerland, in the “Health Valley” area and acts as marketing advisor for small life sciences companies and is professor at Lausanne University Business School (MBA healthcare marketing). He is passionate about digital healthcare and communication to patients.

​Caroline holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology (Bordeaux Polytechnic Institute, France) and a PhD in Life Sciences (Heidelberg University, Germany). She worked as a researcher for more than 10 years in the field of genetic engineering and renal physiology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and then at Lausanne University, Switzerland. She joined Vivactis Switzerland in 2014. In parallel, she teaches biomedical communications to bachelor and master students (external lecturer at Bordeaux University and Lausanne University).

Giulia Venturini, PhD – Scientific Project Manager

​Giulia holds a Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnology (University of Florence, Italy) and a PhD in Life Sciences (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). She has more than 10 years of experience in fundamental research in the life science field. To learn more about GCP and clinical research regulations and become familiar with marketing authorization processes, she enrolled in the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Management of Clinical Trials (University of Geneva, Switzerland), a course accredited by Swissethics.